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Suitable metrics to capture simple responseTime value over time using dropwizard and graphite

As I find in other examples, 

Timer.Context timer = metricRegistry.timer("name").time();
....
timer.stop();

This gives Timer metric which is "A timer measures both the rate that a particular piece of code is called and the distribution of its duration."

But how can I get the simple ResponseTime. Seems like Gauge is better fit, but then it doesn't help to plot the times continuously over time. So Histogram also doesn't seem to helpful.

What am I missing?

Solution

  • Gauge can be used to capture the response time and graphite provides the capability to plot the value over time.